Working on a 100 symbol set for Sci-Fi Battle Systems, Starports and Starships

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Although I started this project a while back, I got derailed for a few months, so now I'm back it. I am working on a 100 map symbol set of Sci-Fi objects usable in battle stations, starship deck plans and starport maps. As always, I am using Xara Designer Pro x11, a vector drawing application with powerful beveling and transparency features as well as some light duty 3D extrusions. I am mostly using photo texture fills, or simple color, and drop shadows. I've even included a sample bridge deck for some starship using some of the symbols.

Anyway, I've got about 80+ items created so far.

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Well if you think everyone aboard sleeps in a stateroom, then you might have to crew a different ship. Staterooms are reserved for the ship's captain, owner, and high passage clients, everyone else sleeps in crew quarter cells, such as this one - inspired by Firefly to a degree.

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Someone asked if I could create rooms, bulkheads, floors, etc for an additional set of Sci-Fi map objects, and I said I would. I am doing a map commission right now for 5 maps, so that's a priority, but currently waiting for the author to explain some details in the next map I'll be doing, so I've got some spare time to do a couple.

I decided that a round room for a power plant or something is sometimes needed in a starship/starport design, but round often isn't congruent with square/rectangular deck plans and hallways, so I created a set of round rooms inside a square. In the open corners of each room I stuck in various conduits and one with a Jeffries tube. Also I created a single entrance round room, a 2 entrance thruway, a 2 entrance elbow, a 3 entrance one, and a 4 entrance crossroad - to allow every option.Note I used "halo" shadows so you can rotate or flip any of these chambers and shadows are the same.

I also included a 48 foot piece of bulkhead, a 20 foot piece of bulkhead, and a 20 foot piece of bulkhead with a corner. I also cropped these so you can overlay corners with bulkheads, or extend a bulkhead length by overlapping them with another bulkhead, so it looks continuous.

I also created a repeating texture of hull/bulkhead exterior surface - like the surface of the Millennium Falcon (ubiquitous panels, boxes, channels - called "nurnies" by Industrial Light & Magic).

As I get more respites during my commission I will create more chamber shapes with various entry ways to add to this set - I don't know how many in total, but we'll see.

I also plan to create various floors, I'm thinking colored removable panels on a grid as one possible floor design, and even including one floor piece with a panel removed and set aside exposing horizontal conduits and such in shadows beneath the floor - for maintenance purposes. I will include a floor grating repeating texture so you can create overhead catwalks as another kind of flooring.

Anyway, first partial set of bulkhead, chambers, etc.

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Underneath a mining excavator vehicle, with support legs, tracks, weighted, diamond tipped rock drill and a ladder is accessable at ground level, the rest of the vehicle (shown in shadow) is over their heads. Might make a good place for a fire fight with rocks being tossed around and risk falling into the spinning rock drill.

I used a 3D extrude tool to create the legs, the tracks and the cover over the tracks, another tool in Xara Designer Pro x11.

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For my next sci-fi map object set, I plan to include some repeating textures to use as image fills for flooring and superstructure. The following is a simple grated floor with a dark shadow beneath, and a sci-fi hull surface texture.

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Can never have too many sci-fi control consoles - this one is 200 ppi.

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Just playing around with bevels and 3D extrusions in Xara Designer Pro - here's an insect-like warbot or cybernetic insect race.

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Some kind of power junction or something.

[Jaxilon]

I like that power junction thingie.

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Thanks, Jax! Here's another: external cargo airlock closed, opening, opened with internal airlock doors remaining shut, for any extra-vehicular activity.

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